If you go to Garth with the simple offer of your love--the treasure he asked three years ago and failed to win--he will naturally conclude the love now given is mainly pity; and Garth Dalmain is not the man to be content with pity, where he has thought to win love, and failed.

Nor would he allow any woman--least of all his crown of womanhood--to tie herself to his blindness unless he were sure such binding was her deepest joy.

And how could you expect him to believe this in face of the fact that, when he was all a woman's heart could desire, you refused him and sent him from you ?--If, on the other hand, you explain, as no doubt you intend to do, the reason of that refusal, he can but say one thing: 'You could not trust me to be faithful when I had my sight.

Blind, you come to me, when it is no longer in my power to prove my fidelity.

There is no virtue in necessity.